Monday, August 03, 2015

1) Wetzel and Hecht, 25.11.39: "We are indifferent to the hygienic fate
of the Jews. Also for the Jews the basic principle is valid, that their
propagation must be curtailed in every possible way." [Die Frage der
Behandlung der Bevoelkerung der ehemaligen polnischen Gebiete nach
rassenpolitischen Gesichtspunkten, 25.11.39, NO-3732].

2) Koppe, 18.10.40: "[The] so-called Sonderkommando Lange,
assigned to me for special tasks, was detached to Soldau in East Prussia from
21 May to 8 June, 1940, as per agreement with the Reich Main Security Office
[RSHA]. During this period, it successfully evacuated 1,558 mental patients
from the Soldau transit camp" [source].

4) Staatssekretäre meeting, 2.5.41: "There is no doubt that as a result
many millions of people will be starved to death if we take out of the
country the things necessary for us” [Aktennotiz über Ergebnis der
heutigen. Besprechung mit den Staatssekretären über Barbarossa, 2.5.41,
2718-PS, IMT XXXI, pp.84-85, English translation in NCA V, p.378; cf.
Alex J. Kay, ‘Germany's Staatssekretäre, Mass Starvation and the Meeting
of 2 May 1941’, Journal of Contemporary History, 41/4, October 2006,
pp.685-700]

5) Backe, 23.5.41: "This will inevitably result in an extinction of
industry as well as of a large part of the people...”
[Wirtschaftspolitische Richtlinien für die Wirtschaftsorganisation Ost
vom 23.5.1941, erarbeitet von der Gruppe Landwirtschaft, 23.5.41,
EC-126, IMT XXXVI, pp.135-57. English translation in NCA, VII,
pp.295-306, here p.305].

6) Hitler, 16.7.41:

Nobody shall be able to recognize that it initiates a final settlement.
This need not prevent our taking all necessary measures - shooting,
resettling, etc. - and we shall take them.

But we do not want to make any people into enemies prematurely and
unnecessarily. Therefore we shall act as though we wanted to exercise a
mandate only. At the same time we must know clearly that we shall never
leave those countries" [Vermerk über die Besprechung am
16.7.1941, L-221, IMT XXXVIII, pp.86-94, here p.87; English translation NCA VII, pp.1086-1093, here pp.1086-1087]

7) Höppner 16.7.41:

4. This winter there is a danger that not all
of the Jews can be fed anymore. One should weigh honestly, if the most humane
solution might not be to finish off those of the Jews who are not employable by
means of some quickworking device. At any rate, that would be more pleasant
than to let them starve to death.

5. For the rest, the proposal was made that in this camp all the Jewish women,
from whom one could still expect children, should be sterilized so that the
Jewish problem may actually be solved completely with this generation [source and German scan].

8) Heydrich 17.7.41: "Above
all, the following must be discovered: all important functionaries of
State and Party, especially professional revolutionaries . . . all
People’s Commissars in the Red Army, leading personalities of the State .
. . leading personalities of the business world, members of the Soviet
Russian Intelligence, all Jews, all persons who are found to be
agitators or fanatical Communists. Executions are not to be held in the
camp or in the immediate vicinity of the camp . . . The prisoners are to
be taken for special treatment if possible into the former Soviet
Russian territory [502-PS; scan of German text]."

9) Goebbels 20.7.41:

Just as the fist of an awakened Germany has struck this racial
filth, the fist of an awakened Europe will surely follow. Mimicry
will not help the Jews then. They will have to face their accusers.
The court of the nations will judge their oppressor.

Without pity or forgiveness, the blow will strike. The world
enemy will fall, and Europe will have peace [source and source].

10) Himmler, 1.8.41: "Explicit order from the R[eichs]F[ührer-]SS: All Jews must be shot, drive Jewish women into the swamps" [source, p.138].

11) Goebbels citing Hitler 20.8.41: "But I will not rest or be idle until we
too have gone all the way with the Jews" (Goebbels' diary in Browning, p.320).

12) Hübner 5.9.41: "we don’t treat the Jews with kid gloves and...in the east already many a Jew no longer lives" (source here).

Here a modest point may be permitted: There are about 20 million Jews in the world.

How
would it be if one wanted to treat 20 million Jews according to the
proposal of their racial comrade Kaufman rather than 80 million Germans?
Then peace would certainly be assured. For the Jew is the troublemaker,
the warmonger, everywhere in the world [source and source].

17) Rasch, 17.9.41: "There is only one possibility, which the German administration in
the General Gouvernement has not sufficiently understood for a long
time, the solution of the Jewish problem by extensive labor utilization
of the Jews. This will result in a gradual liquidation of the Jews,
a development which corresponds to the economic conditions of the
country." [source].

18) EM 101, 2.10.41:
"Sonderkommando 4a in collaboration with Einsatzgruppe HQ and two
Kommandos of police regiment South, executed 33,771 Jews in Kiev on
September 29 and 30, 1941"

20) Reichenau, 10.10.41:
"Therefore the soldier must have full understanding for the necessity of
a severe but just revenge on subhuman Jewry. The Army has to aim at
another purpose, i.e. the annihilation of revolts in hinterland, which,
as experience proves, have always been caused by Jews [source and source]."

21)
Alnor, 11.10.41: "Especially the shooting of women and children, who
sometimes had to be taken to the execution site screaming, has been the
source of general horror. The rather compliant mayor of Libau […]
appeared personally before me and pointed out the agitation throughout
the city. Also officers asked me if this cruel manner of executing even
children was necessary. In any cultured state and even in the Middle
Ages it was not allowed to kill pregnant women. Here even that was not
taken into consideration.[…] I am of the opinion that this will one day
turn out to be a serious mistake. Unless one also liquidates thereafter
all elements participating therein. (Es sei denn, dass man alle dabei
mitwirkenden Elemente auch anschlieβend liquidiert)[Bericht des
Gebietskommissars Libau, gez. Alnor, an den Generalkommissar Lettland,
Drechsler, 11.10.1941, VEJ 7, pp.556-57 (Dok. 200), translation by
Roberto Muehlenkamp here].

23) Hitler, 21.10.41: "By exterminating this pest, we shall do humanity a service of which our soldiers can have no idea [source]."

24) Wurm 23.10.41:

Dear Party Comrade Rademacher!

On my return trip from Berlin I met an old party comrade, who works in
the east on the settlement of the Jewish question. In the near future
many of the Jewish vermin will be exterminated through special measures (source note 82).

25) Hitler, 25.10.41: "This criminal race has the two million dead from the World War on its
conscience, now again hundreds of thousands. No one can say to me: we
can't send them in the morass! Who then cares about our people? It is
good if the terror we are exterminating Jewry goes before us." [source and source]

26) Wetzel, 25.10.41: "As things now are, there are no objections if the Jews who are not
capable of work, are eliminated with the Brackian remedy" [source].

I
have forbidden the unauthorized ("wild") executions of Jews in Libau
because the manner in which they were carried out was irresponsible.

Will
you please inform me whether your inquiry of October 31 should be
interpreted as a directive to liquidate all the Jews in Ostland ? Is
this to be done regardless of age, sex, and economic requirements (for
instance, the Wehrmacht's demand for skilled workers in the armament
industry)? Of course the cleansing of Ostland of Jews is a most
important task; its solution, however, must be in accord with the
requirements of war production. [source].

29)
Goebbels 16.11.41: "The Jews are receiving a penalty that is certainly
hard, but more than deserved. World Jewry erred in adding up the forces
available to it for this war, and now is gradually experiencing the
destructon that it planned for us, and would have carried out without a
second thought if it had possessed the ability. It is perishing
according its own law: “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”" [source and source].

30)
Goering, 11.41: "This year, 20 to 30 million people will die of hunger
in Russia. Perhaps it is a good thing that this is happening, because
certain peoples must be decimated" [source].

31) Rosenberg 18.11.41: "In the east some six million Jew still live,
and this question can only be solved in a biological eradication of the
entire Jewry of Europe. The Jewish question is only solved for Germany
when the last Jew has left German territory, and for Europe when not a
single Jew lives on the European continent up to the Urals. ...for this
reason it is necessary to expel them over the Urals or eradicate them in
some other way" (source).

32) Hitler, 28.11.41: "Germany's objective would then be solely the
destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere
under the protection of British power." [source]

33) Hitler 1.12.41:

Now,
he who destroys life is himself risking death. That's the secret of
what is happening to the Jews. Whose fault is it when a cat devours a
mouse? The fault of the mouse, who has never done any harm to a cat?

This
destructive role of the Jew has in a way a providential explanation. If
nature wanted the Jew to be the ferment that causes peoples to decay,
thus providing these peoples with an opportunity for a healthy reaction,
in that case people like St.Paul and Trotsky are, from our point of
view, the most valuable.

By the fact of their presence,
they provoke the defensive reaction of the attacked organism. Dietrich
Eckart once told me that in all his life he had known just one good Jew :
Otto Weininger, who killed himself on the day when he realised that the
Jew lives upon the decay of peoples.

It is remarkable
that the half-caste Jew, to the second or third generation, has a
tendency to start flirting again with pure Jews. But from the seventh
generation onwards, it seems the purity of the Aryan blood is restored.
In the long run nature eliminates the noxious elements.

One
may be repelled by this law of nature which demands that all living
things should mutually devour one another. The fly is snapped up by a
dragon-fly, which itself is swallowed by a bird, which itself falls
victim to a larger bird. This last, as it grows old, becomes a prey to
microbes, which end by getting the better of it. These microbes, in
their turn, find their predestined ends.

If we had more
powerful microscopes, we would discover new worlds. In the absolute,
moreover, nothing is either great or small. Things are big or little by
the standard one selects.

What is certain, in any case,
is that one cannot change anything in all that. Even a man who takes
his own life returns finally to nature—body, soul and mind.

The
toad knows nothing of his previous existence as a tadpole, and our own
memory serves us no better as regards our own previous state. That's why
I have the feeling that it's useful to know the laws of nature—for that
enables us to obey them.

To act otherwise would be to
rise in revolt against Heaven. If I can accept a divine Commandment,
it's this one: "Thou shalt preserve the species [source].

34)
Jaeger report, 1.12.41: "I am of the view that the sterilization
program of the male worker Jews should be started immediately so that
reproduction is prevented. If despite sterilization a Jewess becomes
pregnant she will be liquidated [source]."

35)
Lohse, 2.12.41: "I request most emphatically that the liquidation of
Jews employed as skilled workers in armament plants and repair workshops
of the Wehrmacht who cannot be replaced at present by local personnel
be prevented [source]."

36) Seraphim, 2.12.41:

Scooping
off the agricultural surplus in the Ukraine for the purpose of feeding
the Reich is therefore only feasible if traffic in the interior of the
Ukraine is diminished to a minimum. The attempt will be made to achieve
this

1. by annihilation of
superfluous eaters (Jews, population of the Ukrainian big cities, which
like Kiev do not receive any supplies at all);

2. by extreme reduction of the rations. allocated to the Ukrainians in the remaining cities;

37) Goebbels on Hitler's address to the Gau and Reich leaders of 12.12.41: "As concerns the Jewish question, the Führer is determined to make
a clean sweep. He had prophesied to the Jews that if they once again
brought about a world war they would experience their own extermination.
This was not just an empty phrase. The World War is there, the
extermination of Jewry must be the necessary consequence. This question
must be seen without sentimentality. We are not here in order to have
sympathy with the Jews, rather we sympathise with our own German people.
If the German people have now once again sacrificed as many as 160,000
dead in the Eastern campaign, then the authors of this bloody conflict
must pay with their lives." [source]

38) Rosenberg, 14.12.41: "comments on the New York Jews did not perhaps have to ... be somewhat
altered. [...] I took the position not to speak about the extirpation (Ausrottung) of the Jews. The Führer
agreed with this attitude and said they saddled us with the war and
they brought the destruction; it would be no wonder if they were the
first to feel the consequences." [source]

39)
Frank 16.12.41:

This war would only be a partial success if the whole
lot of Jewry would survive it, while we would have shed our best blood
in order to save Europe. My attitude towards the Jews will, therefore,
be based only on the expectation that they must disappear. They must be
done away with. I have entered negotiations to have them deported to the
East. A great discussion concerning that question will take place in
Berlin in January, to which I am going to delegate the State Secretary
Dr. Buehler. That discussion is to take place in the Reich Security Main
Office with SS-Lt. General Heydrich. A great Jewish migration will
begin, in any case.

But what should be done with the
Jews? Do you think they will be settled down in the 'Ostland', in
villages? This is what we were told in Berlin: Why all this bother ? We
can do nothing with them either in the 'Ostland' nor in the 'Reich
kommissariat'. So liquidate them yourself.

Gentlemen,
I must ask you to rid yourself of all feeling of pity. We must
annihilate the Jews, wherever we find them and wherever it is possible,
in order to maintain there the structure of the Reich as a whole. This
will, naturally, be achieved by other methods than those pointed out by
Bureau Chief Dr. Hummel. Nor can the judges of the Special Courts be
made responsible for it, because of the limitations of the framework of
the legal procedure. Such outdated views cannot be applied to such
gigantic and unique events. We must find at any rate a way which leads
to the goal, and my thoughts are working in that direction.

The
Jews represent for us-also extraordinarily malignant gluttons. We have
now approximately 2,500,000 of them in the General Government, perhaps
with the Jewish mixtures and everything that goes with it, 3,500,000
Jews. We cannot shoot or poison those 3,500,000 Jews, but we shall
nevertheless be able to take measures, which will lead, somehow, to
their annihilation, and this in connection with the gigantic measures to
be determined in discussions from the Reich. The General Government
must become free of Jews, the same as the Reich. Where and how this is
to be achieved is a matter for the offices which we must appoint and
create here. Their activities will be brought to your attention in due
course." (source).

40)
Kube, 16.12.41: "Is the slaughter to be carried out by the Lithuanians
and Letts, who are themselves rejected by the population here? I
couldn't do it. I beg you to give clear directives [in this matter],
with due consideration for the good name of our Reich and our Party, in
order that the necessary action can be taken in the most humane manner."
[source].

The
Jewish question has presumably been clarified meanwhile by means of
verbal discussion. In principle, economic considerations are not to be
taken into account in the settlement of the problem. It is further
requested that any questions that arise be settled directly with the
Higher SS and Police Leader. [source].

44) Salitter 26.12.41:"Of
the Bolsheviks, however, no Latvian wants to know, as there is rarely a
family that has made it through the Soviet occupation without blood
sacrifices. Their hatred is especially directed at the Jews. They have
therefore from the moment of liberation until now participated copiously
in the extermination of these parasites. However, as I found out
especially regarding the railway personnel, they cannot understand why
Germany brings the Jews to Latvia instead of having exterminated them in
its own country[scan of German text; translation kindly provided by Roberto Muehlenkamp]."

45) EM 156, 16.1.42: "On November 30, 1941, 10,600 Jews were shot in Riga.
The action was led by the Higher SS and Police Chief. One officer and
20 men of Einsatzkommando took part." [source]

46) Wannsee Protocol 20.1.42: "The possible
final remnant will, since it will undoubtedly consist of the most
resistant portion, have to be treated accordingly, because it is the
product of natural selection and would, if released, act as a the seed
of a new Jewish revival (see the experience of history)" (source).

47)
Hitler 23.1.42: "For my part, I restrict myself to telling them they
must go away. If they break their pipes on the journey, I can't do
anything about it. But if they refuse to go voluntarily, I see no other
solution but extermination" [source]

48)
Hitler 30.1.42: "We are fully aware that this war can end either in the
extermination of the Aryan people or in the disappearance of Jewry from
Europe. I said as much before the German Reichstag on September 1,
1939. I wish to avoid making hasty prophesies, but this war will not end
as the Jews imagine, namely, in the extermination of the European-Aryan
people; instead, the result of this war will be the annihilation of
Jewry. For the first time, the old, truly Jewish rule of “an eye for an
eye, a tooth for a tooth,” will obtain" (Domarus).

49) Hitler, 3.2.42: "So the Jew smacks his thighs to see how his diabolic stratagem has
succeeded. He bears in mind that if his victims suddenly became aware of
these things, all Jews would be exterminated. But, this time, the Jews
will disappear from Europe [source]."

50)
Kube, 6.2.42: "because the ground in White Russia is frozen down to a
depth of two meters, other possibilities were also not available" (Browning, p.394).

51) Mueller 18.2.42: "'where you cut wood,
that is where the chips fall,' and the Jewish enemy will always try to
exaggerate as much as possible the measures being taken against him in
the hope of arousing pity and to achieve the cancellation of these
steps. Since they began taking action against this enemy, he has been
trying by means of anonymous letters to avoid the destiny that is
appropriate to him [source and source]."

52) Hitler, 22.2.42: "The Jew will be identified! The same battle which Pasteur and Koch had
to fight must be led by us today. Innumerable sicknesses have their
origin in one bacillus: the Jew! Japan would also have got it had it
been remained open any longer to the Jew. We will get well when we
eliminate the Jews" [source].

53)
Hitler, 24.2.42: "Today the idea of our National Socialist, and that of
the fascist revolution, have conquered great and powerful states, and
my prophecy will find its fulfillment, that through this war Aryan
humankind will not be annihilated, but the Jew will be exterminated.
Whatever the struggle may bring with it or however long it may last,
this will be its final result. And only then, with the removal of these
parasites, will a long period of understanding between nations, and with
it true peace, come upon the suffering world" [source].

54) Rosenberg, 28.2.42: "Anyhow, with a certain amount of understanding for
goals aimed at by German politics, dying and deterioration could have
been avoided in the extent described. For instance, according to in-
formation on hand, the native population within the Soviet Union are
absolutely willing to put food at, the disposal of the prisoners of war.
Several understanding camp commanders have success- fully chosen this
course. However in the majority of the cases, the camp commanders have
forbidden the civilian population to put food at the disposal of the
prisoners, and they have rather let them starve to death." [Rosenberg an
Keitel. Betr.:Kriegsgefangene, 28.2.42. 081-PS, IMT XXV, pp.156-161,
here p.157. English translation NMT, III, pp.126-130, here 127].

55) Final Solution conference, 6.3.42: "it was in no way tenable to keep the half-Jews permanently alive" [source and source, pp.5-6].

56)
Goebbels, 6.3.42: "Everywhere the Jews are busy inciting and stirring
up trouble. It is therefore desirable that many of them must pay with
their lives for this. Anyway, I am of the opinion that the greater the
number of Jews liquidated, the more consolidated will the situation in
Europe be after this war. One must have no mistaken sentimentality about
it. The Jews are Europe's misfortune. They must somehow be eliminated,
otherwise we are in danger of being eliminated by them" (source).

57) Rademacher 24.3.42: The stronger the German victory looms, the greater and more urgent becomes the tasks of the Referat, becausethe
Jewish question must be solved in the course of the war, for only so
can it be solved without a world-wide outcry (Browning, p.83, citing PA,
Inland II 347/3, Rademacher to Schroeder, 24.3.42)

58)
Goebbels, 27.3.42:

Beginning with Lublin, the Jews in the General
Government are now being evacuated eastward. The procedure is a pretty
barbaric one and not to be described here more definitely. Not much will
remain of the Jews. On the whole it can be said that about 60 per cent
of them will have to be liquidated whereas only about 40 per cent can be
used for forced labor.

The former Gauleiter of
Vienna, who is to carry this measure through, is doing it with
considerable circumspection and according to a method that does not
attract too much attention. A judgment is being visited upon the Jews
that, while barbaric, is fully deserved by them. The prophesy which the
Fuehrer made about them for having brought on a new world war is
beginning to come true in a most terrible manner. One must not be
sentimental in these matters. If we did not fight the Jews, they would
destroy us. It's a life-and-death struggle between the Aryan race and
the Jewish bacillus. No other government and no other regime would have
the strength for such a global solution of this question. Here, too, the
Fuehrer is the undismayed champion of a radical solution necessitated
by conditions and therefore inexorable. Fortunately a whole series of
possibilities presents itself for us in wartime that would be denied us
in peacetime. We shall have to profit by this.

The
ghettoes that will be emptied in the cities of the General Government
now will be refilled with Jews thrown out of the Reich. This process is
to be repeated from time to time. There is nothing funny in it for the
Jews, and the fact that Jewry's representatives in England and America
are today organizing and sponsoring the war against Germany must be paid
for dearly by its representatives in Europe - and that's only right." [source].

59)
Turner, 11.4.42: "Already some months ago, I shot dead all the Jews I
could get my hands on in this area, concentrated all the Jewish women
and children in a camp and with the help of the SD got my hands on a
"delousing van," that in about 14 days to 4 weeks will have brought
about the definitive clearing out of the camp, which in any event since
the arrival of Meyssner and the turning over of this camp to him, was
continued by him. Then the time is come in which the Jewish officers to
be found in prisoner of war camps under the Geneva Convention find out
against our will about their no longer existing kinfolk and that could
easily lead to complications" (source).

60) Goebbels 27.4.42: "I talked to the Fuehrer once more in detail
about the Jewish question. His attitude is unrelenting. He wants, under
all circumstances, to push the Jews out of Europe. That is right. The
Jews have brought so much misery to our continent that the severest
punishment meted out to them is still too mild....[source]."

61) Wetzel, 27.4.42 first extract: "Thus for the territories to be taken into consideration here there
results a total population of 51 million. The number of those to be in
principle evacuated according to the plan should thus be actually higher
than foreseen in the plan. Only if one assumes that the about 5 to 6 million Jews who live in this area are already removed prior to the evacuation
one reaches the number of 45 million alien peoples mentioned in the
plan. The plan’s considerations, however, show that the Jews are still
included in the mentioned 45 million [source and translation]."

62) Wetzel, 27.4.42 second extract: "An evacuation of the Jews also mentioned in the plan is no longer necessary due to the solution of the Jewish question.
An eventual transfer of the Jews still remaining after the end of this
war to forced labor camps in the northern Russian and Siberian territory
is no "evacuation". Of the alien peoples to be considered for
evacuation there thus remain to be discussed only the Poles, Western
Ukrainians (it is not quite clear if by "Galicians" the plan means Poles
or Ucranians) and White Ruthenians..[source]."

63) Wetzel, 27.4.42 third extract: "It should be clear that one cannot solve the Polish question by liquidating the Poles like the Jews. Such a solution of the Polish question would incriminate the German people until a distant future and take away our sympathies everywhere, especially as all other neighboring peoples will have to count on being treated similarly when the time comes
[source and translation]."

64)
Goebbels 29.4.42: "The SD gave me a police report on conditions in the
East. The danger of the Partisans continues to exist in unmitigated
intensity in the occupied areas. The Partisans have, after all, caused
us very great difficulties during the winter, and these difficulties
have by no means ceased with the beginning of spring. Short shrift is
made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of
them are liquidated [source]."

65) Greiser, 1.5.42: "It will be possible to conclude the action of
special treatment of about 100,000 Jews in the area of my Gau,
authorized by yourself with the agreement of the head of the
Reichssicherheitshauptamt, SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich, within the
next 2-3 months. I hereby ask for authorization to use the existing and
trained special detachment after the Jewish action in order to free the
Gau of a danger that takes a more catastrophic shape every week. There
are 230,000 identified ethnic Poles with tuberculosis in the Gau area.
The number of Poles with open tuberculosis is estimated at ca. 35 000.
[…]Though it is not possible to tackle this popular plague in the
Old Reich with corresponding draconian measures, I think I can take the
responsibility of proposing to you that here in the Warthegau the cases
of open tuberculosis among the Polish people are extirpated [source and translation]."

68)
Goebbels 15.5.42: "A report from Paris informs me that a number of
those who staged the last acts of terror have been found. About 99 per
cent of them are eastern Jews [Ostjuden]. A more rigorous regime is now
to be applied to these Jews. As far as I am concerned, it would be best
if we either evacuated or liquidated all eastern Jews still remaining in
Paris. By nature and race they will always be our natural enemies
anyway [source]."

69) Brack, 23.6.42: "Among 10 millions of Jews in Europe there
are, I figure, at least 2-3 millions of men and women who are fit enough to
work. Considering the extraordinary difficulties the labor problem presents us
with, I hold the view that those 3 millions should be specially selected and
preserved. This can, however, only be done if at the same time they are
rendered incapable to propagate. About a year ago I reported to you that agents
of mine had completed the experiments necessary for this purpose. I would like
to recall these facts once more. Sterilization, as normally performed on
persons with hereditary diseases, is here out of the question, because it takes
too long and is too expensive. Castration by X-ray however is not only
relatively cheap, but can also be performed on many thousands in the shortest
time. I think, that at this time it is already irrelevant whether the people in
question become aware of having been castrated after some weeks or months once
they feel the effects [source]."

72) Himmler, 28.7.42: ""The Führer placed on my shoulders the implementation of this
very difficult order. The responsibility cannot be taken away from me in
any case." [source].

73) Kube, 31.7.42:

I myself and the SD would certainly much prefer that the Jewish
population in the district general of White Ruthenia should be
eliminated once and for all when the economic requirements of the
Wehrmacht have fallen off. For the time being, the necessary
requirements of the Wehrmacht who is the main employer of the Jewish
population are still being considered. The clear anti-Jewish attitude of
the SD and the difficult task of the units in White Ruthenia to deliver
again and again new Jewish transports from the Reich to their
destination, both put an undue strain on the physical and spiritual
strength of men of the SD and diverts them from their real purpose,
which lies in the White Ruthenian region itself."

I should therefore be grateful if the Reich Commissioner could see his
way to stop further Jewish transports until the partisan threat has
finally been overcome. I must make 100 percent use of the SD against
partisans and against the Polish Resistance Movement, both of which
demand the use of the full strength of the SD units, which are none too
strong as it is. [NMT IV, p.193].

74) Bene, 13.8.42: "Since my above mentioned report the situation has considerably changed.
After the Jews had found us out and got to know, what is behind the
deportation and labor service in the East, they no more report for the
weekly shipments. Of 2000 Jews called up for this week only about 400
showed up. In their homes the called up Jews cannot any longer be found [German text, English translation]."

75) Hitler, 30.8.42: "It is here in Russia that Communism shows its true face. We must
undertake a campaign of cleaning-up, square metre by square metre, and
this will compel us to have recourse to summary justice. The struggle
with the terrorists will be savage warfare in the real sense. In Estonia
and Latvia these bands have all but ceased to be active ; but until
Jewry, which is the bandits' Intelligence Service, is exterminated, we
shall not have accomplished our task [source]."

76) Thierack 14.9.42: "With regard to the destruction of asocial
life, Dr Goebbels is of the opinion that the following groups should be
exterminated: Jews and gypsies unconditionally, Poles who have to serve
3-4 -years of penal servitude, and Czechs and Germans who are sentenced
to death or penal servitude for life or to security custody
[Sicherungsvorwahrung] for life. The idea of exterminating them by labor
is the best. For the rest however, except in the aforementioned cases,
every case has to be dealt with individually. In this case, of course,
Czechs and Germans have to be differently judged. There may be cases
where a German sentenced to 15 years of penal servitude is not to be
considered asocial, but in contrast to this a person sentenced to penal
servitude up to 8 years may be [source]."

77) Thierack 18.9.42: "Delivery of asocial elements [asozialer Elemente] while serving penal
sentences to the Reich Leader SS to be worked to death [zur Vernichtung
durch Arbeit]. Persons under security detention, Jews, gypsies,
Russians, and Ukrainians; Poles with more than 3-year sentences; and
Czechs and Germans with more than 8-year sentences, will be turned over
without exception, according to the decision of the Reich Minister of
Justice [source and scan of German text]."

78) Hitler, 30.9.42: "The wire-pullers of this insane man in the White House have managed to pull one nation after another into this war. Correspondingly, however, a wave of anti-Semitism swept over one nation after another. And it will continue to do so, taking hold of one state after another. Every state that enters this war will one day emerge from it as an anti-Semitic state. The Jews once laughed about my prophecies in Germany. I do not know whether they are still laughing today or whether they no longer feel like laughing. Today, too, I can assure you of one thing: they will soon not feel
like laughing anymore anywhere. My prophecies will prove correct here, too" [Domarus].

79) Himmler, 9.10.42: ""Nevertheless, the Jews are supposed to disappear from there as well, according to the wishes of the Führer." [source]

80) Thierack 13.10.42: "With a view to freeing the German people of Poles, Russians, Jews, and
gypsies and with a view to making the Eastern territories which have
been incorporated into the Reich available for settlements for German
nationals, I intend to turn over criminal proceedings against Poles,
Russians, Jews, and gypsies to the Reichsfuehrer SS. In so doing I base
myself on the principle that the administration of justice can only make
a small contribution to the extermination of members of these peoples.
The Justice Administration undoubtedly pronounces very severe sentences
on such persons, but that is not enough to constitute any material
contribution towards the realization of the above-mentioned aim [source and scan of German text]."

81)
Besprechungsniederschrift der
Besprechung über die Endlösung der Judenfrage,
27.10.1942, p.2: "Having regard to this, it was agreed that the proposal
to sterilize all half-Jews of the first degree should be approved [source and source]."

82) Himmler, 27.10.42: "Therefore I order, in spite of economic
considerations, the destruction and obliteration of the Ghetto of Pinsk.
1000 male workers may be spared, in the event that the operation allows
for this, to be made available to the Wehrmacht, for the production of
wooden prefabricated huts. These 1000 men must be kept in a well-guarded
camp, and if security not be maintained, these 1000 are to be destroyed
[source and source]."

83) Hitler, 8.11.42:

There is only one thing left, that is to fight. Just
as I said at a certain moment to the internal enemies: "It is not
possible to come to an understanding with you peacefully; you want
force, so now you'll get it." And these internal enemies have been taken
care of.

Another power, too, which was very strong in
Germany has meanwhile been able to learn from experience that the
National Socialist prophecies are no mere phrases; it is the main power
to which we owe all this misfortune-international Jewry. You will recall
the Reichstag session at which I declared: "If Judaism imagines by any
chance that it can bring about an international world war for the
extermination of the European races, the result will not be the
extermination of the European races, but the extermination of the Jews
in Europe [source].

84) Blome, 18.11.42:

Therefore, something basic must be done soon. One must decide the most
efficient way in which this can be done. There are three ways to be
taken into consideration:

86) Greiser, 21.11.42: "In your letter of 27 June 1942 you gave me permission to give special
treatment to Poles who are proven to be infected with open and therefore
incurable pulmonary tuberculosis. This special treatment of the
seriously sick can of course only take place after the whole population
in the territory of my Gau has been examined to find out who is curable
and who is incurable. The examinations are to start soon in accordance
with the method of Prof. Dr. Hohlfelder, who will be assigned to this
Gau in a few weeks with his X-Ray-Battalion. The first utilization of
this method is estimated to be possible in aproximately half a year [source]."

87)
Goebbels, 14.12.42: "Jewry must pay for its crime just as our Fuehrer
prophesied in his speech in the Reichstag; namely, by the wiping out of
the Jewish race in Europe and possibly in the entire world" [source].

89) Goebbels, 2.3.43: "Goering realizes perfectly what is in store for
all of us if we show any weakness in this war. He has no illusions about
that. On the Jewish question, especially, we have taken a position from
which there is no escape. That is a good thing. Experience teaches that
a movement and a people who have burned their bridges fight with much
greater determination than those who are still able to retreat" [source].

90)
Strauch, 8-10.4.43: "When the civil administration arrived it already
found economic enterprises operated by the Wehrmacht aided by Jews. At a
time when the Bielorussians wanted to murder the Jews, the Wehrmacht
cultivated them. In that way Jews reached key positions and it is
difficult today to remove them completely, for then the enterprises are
liable to be destroyed, something we cannot allow ourselves. I am of the
opinion that we can confidently say that of the 150,000, 130,000 have
already disappeared. 22,000 are still alive in the area of the
Gebietskommissariat." [Shalom Cholawsky, The Jews of Bielorussia during
World War II, Amsterdam, 1998, p.64, citing Protokoll über die Tagung
der Gebietskommissare, Hauptabteilungsleiter und Abteilungsleiter des.
Generalkommissars in Minsk vom 8.April bis 10.April 1943. YV TR-10/808;
also in Erich Haberer, ‘The German police and genocide in Belorussia,
1941-1944. Part I: Police deployment and Nazi genocidal directives’,
Journal of Genocide Research, 2001, 3 (1), p.13, citing CSA-Minsk
370/1/1263/126-45].

91) Hitler, 17.4.43: "Where the
Jews were left to themselves, as for example in Poland, gruesome poverty
and degeneracy had ruled. They were just pure parasites. One had
fundamentally cleared up this state of affairs in Poland. If the Jews
there didn't want to work, they were shot. If they couldn't work, they
had to perish. They had to be treated like tuberculosis bacilli, from
which a healthy body could be infected. That was not
cruel, if one remembered that even innocent natural creatures like
hares and deer had to be killed so that no harm was caused. Why should
one spare the beasts who wanted to bring us Bolshevism more? Nations who
did not rid themselves of Jews perished" [source].

92)
Berger, 19.4.43, NO-628: "In Hungarian Government circles there exists a
well-founded fear that the accession to the confederation will be tied
up with compulsion to liquidate the Jews [source]."

93) Brandt, 20.4.43: "The Reichsführer-SS has received your report on "The
Final Solution of the European Jewish Question". He wishes that "special
treatment of the Jews" not be mentioned anywhere [Brandt an Korherr,
20.4.43, BA NS19/1570, also NO-5196]

94) Himmler April 1943 Kharkov speech:

The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian
enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed
on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death.

It is my opinion - and here, I believe, I am speaking to men [p. 3] who
already understand this - that we must conduct the war and our campaign on
these lines:-how can we take the most men from the Russians-dead or
alive? We shall do it by killing them or taking them prisoner and [p. 4]
really putting them to work, by endeavoring to gain as much control as
possible over any territory we occupy, and by leaving empty of people
any territory we dispose of, any areas we make over to the enemy. Either
they must be deported and will be used as labour in Germany for
Germany, or they will just die in battle. To hand people back again,
giving the enemy workers once more and enabling him to recruit
again,-that I think, taking the broad view, would be absolutely wrong.
That could not be advocated [source].

95) Goebbels 9.5.43:

None of the Führer’s prophetic words has come so inevitably true
as his prediction that if Jewry succeeded in provoking a second world
war, the result would be not the destruction of the Aryan race, but rather
the wiping out of the Jewish race

[...]

The Jews laughed in Germany too when they first saw us. They
are not laughing any longer. They chose to wage war against us.
But that war is turning against them. When they planned a war
to totally destroy the German nation, they signed their own death
warrant [source and source].

96) Goebbels,
13.5.43: "At noon I mentioned this to the Fuehrer. He believed the
Protocols were absolutely geniune.... The Jewish question, in the
Fuehrer's opinion, will play a decisive role in England.... In all the
world, he said, the Jews are alike. Whether they live in a ghetto of the
East or in the bankers' palaces of the City or Wall Street, they will
always pursue the same aims and without previous agreement even use the
same means. Once might well ask why are there any Jews in the world
order? That would be exactly like asking why are there potato bugs?
Nature is dominated by the law of struggle. There will always be
parasites who will spur this struggle on and intensify the process of
selection between the strong and the weak. The principle of struggle
dominates also in human life. One must merely know the laws of this
struggle to be able to face it. The intellectual does not have the
natural means of resisting the Jewish peril because his instincts have
been badly blunted. Because of this fact the nations with a high
standard of civilization are exposed to this peril first and foremost.
In nature life always takes measures against parasites; in the life of
nations that is not always the case. From this fact the Jewish peril
actually stems. There is therefore no other recourse left for modern
nations except to exterminate the Jew...." [source].

97)
Tauebner judgment 24.5.43: "The accused shall not be punished because
of the actions against the Jews as such. The Jews have to be
exterminated and none of the Jews that were killed is any great loss.
Although the accused should have recognized that the extermination of
the Jews was the duty of Kommandos which were set up especially for this
purpose, he should be excused for considering himself to have the
authority to take part in the extermination of Jewry himself. Real
hatred of the Jews was the driving motivation for the accused. In the
process he let himself be drawn into committing cruel actions in
Alexandriya which are unworthy of a German man and an SS-officer. These
excesses cannot be justified, either, as the accused would like to, as
retaliation for the pain that the Jews have caused the German people. It
is not the German way to apply Bolshevic methods during the necessary
extermination of the worst enemy of our people. In so doing the conduct
of the accused gives rise to considerable concern. The accused allowed
his men to act with such vicious brutality that they conducted
themselves under his command like a savage horde [source]."

98) Ley 5.43: "We swear we are not going to abandon the struggle until the Last Jew in
Europe has been exterminated and is actually dead. It is not enough to
isolate the Jewish enemy of mankind - the Jew has got to be
exterminated!" [source]

99) Guenther, 31.5.43:

On 13th April, 1943, the
former German dentist Ernst Israel Tichauer and his wife, Elisa Sara
Tichauer, nee Rosenthal, were committed to the court prison by the
Security Service. Since that time all German and Russian Jews who were
turned over to us had their golden bridgework, crowns, and fillings
pulled or broken out. This happens always one to two hours before the
respective action. Since 13th April, 1943, 516 German and Russian Jews
have been finished off. On the basis of a definite investigation gold
was taken in only two actions - on 14th April, 1943, from 172, and on
27th April, 1943, from 164 Jews. About 50 per cent. of the Jews had gold
teeth, bridgework, or fillings. Hauptscharfuehrer Rube of the Security
Service was always personally present, and he took the gold along, too. Before 13th April, 1943, this was not done [source].

100) Lohse, 18.6.43:

The fact that Jews receive special treatment requires
no further discussion. However, it appears hardly
believable that this is done in the way described in
the report of the General Commissioner of 1 June 1943.
What is Katyn against that? Imagine only that these
occurrences would become known to the other side and
exploited by them! Most likely such propaganda would
have no effect only because people who hear and read
about it simply would not be ready to believe it."

"To
lock men, women, and children into barns and to set fire to them does
not appear to be a suitable method of combatting bands, even if it is
desired to exterminate the population. This method is not worthy of the
German cause and hurts our reputation severely [source].

101) Himmler, 19.6.43: "the evacuation of the Jews, despite the disturbances this will cause in
the next 3 to 4 months, is to be radically expedited and must be endured" [source].

102) Himmler 4.10.43: I shall speak to you here with all frankness of a very serious subject.
We shall now discuss it absolutely openly among ourselves, nevertheless
we shall never speak of it in public. I mean the evacuation of the Jews,
the extermination of the Jewish race [source].

103) Himmler, 6.10.43: "I ask you that what I tell you in this circle you will really only hear
and never talk about it. The question came up to us: What do to with the
women and children? I decided to find a very clear solution also in
this respect. This because I didn’t consider myself entitled to
exterminate the men, that is, to kill them or to have them killed, and
to let the children grow up as avengers against our sons and grandsons.
The difficult decision had to be taken to make this people disappear
from the earth. For the organization that had to carry out the task if
was the most difficult we had so far. It has been carried out without,
as I consider myself entitled to say, our men and our leaders having
taken harm to their spirit and soul. The path between the
possibilities existing here, to either become crude and heartless and no
longer to respect human life or to become weak and collapse to the
point of nervous breakdowns, the path between this Scylla and Charybdis
is horrendously narrow" [source and source].

104)
Goebbels 9.10.43: "Regarding the Jewish question, he [Himmler] gives a
very unadorned and frank picture. He is of the conviction that the
Jewish question can be solved by the end of this year. He advocates the
most radical and most severe solution, namely to exterminate Jewry, bag
and baggage. Of course, if brutal, this is a consistent solution.
Because we must take on the responsibility of entirely solving this
question in our time. Subsequent generations will doubtlessly no longer
dare address this problem with the courage and obsession as we are able
to do today." [source]

106) Himmler, 16.12.43: "Thus I have basically given the order to also kill the wives and
children of these partisans, and commissars. I would be a weakling and a
criminal to our descendants if I allowed the hate-filled sons of the
sub-humans we have liquidated in this struggle of humanity against
subhumanity to grow up." [source]

107)
Himmler 26.1.44: "Largest stabilisation in the G.G. since the solution
to the Jewish question. – Race war. Total solution. Not allowing
avengers to rise against our children." [source]

108)
Greiser, 14.2.44: "The reduction of the population will be carried out
by the Sonderkommando of SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Bothmann, which operated
in the area previously. The RF will issue an Order instructing SS
Hauptsturmfuehrer Bothmann and his Sonderkommando to leave their station
in Croatia and be available for service in the Wartheland." [source]

109) Foreign Office, Inf. XIV,
'Anti-Jewish action abroad', 28.4.44, 3319-PS: "The physical elimination of Eastern Jewry would deprive Jewry of its
biological reserves. Its present structure was characterized by its
association with the three World-Powers. That association became obvious
in the Soviet-Union through the ideological combination of Jewry and
Bolshevism in England by the penetration of the leading class and in the
United States by the occupation of decisive key positions in high
finance. The Jewish question must be solved not only in Germany but also
internationally."

110) Himmler, 5.5.44: "The Jewish question has been solved within Germany itself and in general
within the countries occupied by Germany. It was solved in an
uncompromising fashion in accordance with the life and death struggle of
our nation in which the existence of our blood is at stake [..] You can
understand how difficult it was for me to carry out this military order
which I was given and which I implemented out of a sense of obedience
and absolute conviction. If you say:'we can understand as far as the men
are concerned but not about the children`, then I must remind you of
what I said at the beginning. In this confrontation with Asia we must
get used to condemning to oblivion those rules and customs of past wars
which we have got used to and prefer. In my view, we as Germans, however
deeply we may feel in our hearts, are not entitled to allow a generation of avengers filled with hatred to grow up with whom
our children and grandchildren will have to deal because we, too weak
and cowardly, left it to them." [source].

111) Himmler, 25.5.44: "Another question which was decisive for the inner security of the Reich
and Europe, was the Jewish question. It was uncompromisingly solved
after orders and rational recognition. I believe, Gentleman, that you
know me well enough to know that I am not a bloodthirsty person; I am
not a man who takes pleasure or joy when something rough must be done.
However on the other hand, I have such good nerves and such a developed
sense of duty - I can say that much for myself - that when I recognise
something as necessary I can implement it without compromise. I have not
considered myself entitled - this concerns especially the Jewish women
and children - to allow the children to grow into the avengers who will
then murder our fathers and our grandchildren. That would have been
cowardly. Consequently the question was uncompromisingly resolved." [source]

112) Himmler, 21.6.44:

It
was necessary to resolve another big question. It was the most horrible
task and the most awful assignment that any organization could receive:
the solution of the Jewish question. I want to say a few words on the
matter to this group with complete candor. It's good that we had the
hardness to exterminate the Jews in our territory. Don't ask yourselves
how difficult it would have been to carry out such an order, even
though, as soldiers, I might say you would understand. But thinking
critically as German soldiers, you can see that the order was essential.
Because we wouldn't have been able to withstand the aerial bombing if
we had had the Jews in our cities. I am also convinced we would not have
been able to hold the Lemberg front of the Generalgouvernement if the
big ghettos in Lemberg, Krakau, Lublin, and Warsaw had still been there.
We cleaned out the last one, the big ghetto in Warsaw, in summer 1943.
In Warsaw there were 500,000 Jews. I tell you this number
confidentially. It took us five weeks of street fighting. Just the same,
I want to answer a little question that surely you must have. The
question is, of course you had to kill the adult Jews, I understand
that, but how could you do the same to the women and children? So I have
to tell you something: The children will be grown one day. Do we want
to be so improper that we say, no, no, we're too weak to kill children.
Our children can deal with them. Our children will fight that one out.
But the Jewish hate, small today, will be big tomorrow, and the grown
avengers will attack our children and grandchildren, who will then have
to deal with them. I am convinced that this will be the case even if
Adolf Hitler does not survive. No, we cannot shirk our responsibility to
kill all the Jews. That would have been cowardly and therefore we
adopted a clear solution to the problem, as difficult as it was [source].